Marriage Across the Nations

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Unit 3

• Marriage Across the Nations

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• Group work
• Whats your opinion on the marriage across the
  nations? Is it possible for you to fall in love
  and get married to a foreigner? Why or why not?
  Give your reasons.

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Read the sentences carefully and distinguish the
meaning of the italicized words or phrases in
each pair of sentences.

• Ive been rather up and down recently. I think I
  need a holiday.
• Here is his hometown that he knows up and down.
• Life is full of ups and downs.

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• The old school was sold and subsequently turned
  into a private house.
• The bank refused to help the company
  consequently, it went out of business.
• This was his mother at her worst her voice was
  sharp and loud, and she was to be angry at
  anyone.

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• Most sportsmen are at their best during their
  early manhood.
• He seems poor, but I suspect that he has quite a
  lot of money.
• I doubt that hell come.

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Read the sentences carefully and guess the
meaning of the italicized word in each sentence.

• This period in history is not famous for its
  religious tolerance.
• Many old people have a very limited tolerance to
  cold.
• Both sides are determined to get what they want,
  and there seems to be no possibility of
  compromise.

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• I have no illusion about his ability he is just
  no good.
• The sun appears to go round the Earth, but that
  is only an illusion.
• The trees are budding early this year.
• He is a budding writer.

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• He harbors a secret hatred against her father.
• The girl still harbors the idea of going abroad.
• A judge must be free from prejudice.
• The Russian foreign minister yesterday cancelled
  his visit to Washington.

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Match the synonyms and antonyms in column B with
those in column A.

• imagine, mutual, resistance, counsel, confirm,
  resolve, date, harsh, subtle, realistic

obedience, idealistic, delicate, appointment,
determine, gentle, joint, fancy, advise, verify
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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• The students are to be divided into several
  groups. Each group will be responsible for one
  part of it. Then in the class time, students may
  ask questions about some words or sentences in a
  certain part, and then the group, which is
  responsible for it, will answer the questions.

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• Language points
• we had experienced the usual ups and downs and
  respect each other. (para 1)
• but through it all each others characters
  (para. 1)

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• Our racial and cultural differencesand being
  open with each other. (para 2)
• Open Lets be open with each other.
• be/get involved with
• Gail and I had no illusions about mixed couple
  in America. (para 3)

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• We wanted to avoidwork out right. ( para 4 )
• That pointrelationship. (para. 4)

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• all along
• 1) I suspected all along that she was lying.
• 2) I knew the truth all along.
• So it was all right for me to marry him (
  para 6 )

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• I harbored reservations you might even call
  them. ( para 7 )
• Reservation
• I have some reservations about his story.

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• seeas
• I see it as my duty to find him a job.
• approached our decision with a
  father-knows-best attitude.
• Approach
• The bank has approached the issue in a practical
  way.

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• Then why the rush? Buy time, ( para 12 )
• Buy time
• She tried to buy time by doing a lot of talking.
• its never too late to change your mind. (
  para 21 )
• 1) One is never too old to learn.
• 2) It is never too late to mend.

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• Give the summary orally
• clue experience, ups and downs, confront,
  weakness and strengths, tolerance, compromise,
  open, incompatible, personality conflicts,
  mother, counsel, father, suspect, statistics,
  divorce rate, realistic, mixed marriage

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• Simulated writing
• Gail and I had no illusions about what the future
  held for us as a married, mixed couple in
  America.
• They overlooked serious personality conflicts in
  the expectation that marriage was an automatic
  way to make everything work out right.

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• That point was emphasized by the fact that Gails
  parents, after 35 years of marriage, were going
  through a bitter and painful divorce.
• To start with I must admit that at first I
  harbored reservations about a mixed marriage,
  prejudices you might even call them.

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• Homework
• Section B, Section C